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[dkwookie]

Saw this in yesterdays Mail. What does everyone else think about this. Justified complaint or forgive and forget time?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rman-town.html

[winny]

Originally Posted by dkwookie

Saw this in yesterdays Mail. What does everyone else think about this. Justified complaint or forgive and forget time?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rman-town.html

It's borderline racism.. He's not wanting a street named after a German town where he probably killed people and definitley destroyed stuff...

We won, the Germany then is a lot different to the Germany that exists now.

I think it's just an old guy stuck in the past (I respect what he did but I think his attitude is old fashioned)

It is the Daily Mail after all. A piece of shit newspaper. Thier ideal story would be that the Nazis killed Dianna...

[MACADEMIC]

One of the priviledges of living in our time is to live in a Europe that is united in friendship and where such a terrible conflict will never happen again. Much of this is owed to the wisdom of the Western Allies who after the war have reached out, put the defeated nations back on their feet with the Marshal Plan and other intiatives which ensured the establishment of democratic institutions and the rebuilding of civil societies. One such remarkable intitiative was the concept of European partnering/sister cities across all Europe. This made it possible on a communal level for people from different regions to not just talk about, but with each other.

Today talking to each other across all borders is second nature. I have immense respect for the people who fought in the war and for their sacrifices, but my respect is equally high if not higher for those who have not only won the war, but have also won the peace.

MAC

[Robotic Pope]

+1 Winny, +1 Mac. Poor old guy probably has some horrible memories that this has brought back to the forefront of his mind. So you can't really blame him, and this

World War II veteran Don Crossley was called the 'clown of the village'...

is unexceptable after what these veterans did for us. But this is today and a completly different world. I'm sure the council actualy acted very respectfully towards him, its just this horrible press that added the xenophopic stuff for effect.